Head of Engineering

Recruitment Room - Global; España; A distancia; EUR 168.000 - 254.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading blockchain infrastructure company is seeking a Head of Engineering to drive technical vision and team culture. This remote position involves leading a Rust team, ensuring infrastructure reliability, and collaborating on long-term strategy in the exciting blockchain space. Candidates should have a strong leadership background in blockchain and distributed systems, with a deep knowledge of Rust programming. The role offers a competitive salary range of $200K–$300K plus equity and tokens.

Servicios

Tokens and equity

Work with motivated builders

Remote-first approach

Formación

• Proven leadership in blockchain, distributed systems, or high-performance infrastructure.
• Deep Rust (or C/C++/Go) expertise and systems-level programming skills.
• Experience scaling L1/L2 architectures and cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsabilidades

• Architect and evolve distributed systems for scale, performance, and security.
• Grow and mentor a high-performing engineering team.
• Oversee reliability and scalability across Kubernetes, cloud, and networking layers.

Conocimientos

Leadership in blockchain

Rust expertise

Distributed systems

Cloud-native infrastructure

Protocol design

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Head of Engineering – Blockchain Infrastructure. Remote (Europe) | Full-Time | $200K–$300K base salary + Tokens & Equity | Rust + Distributed Systems

About The Role: A frontier blockchain infrastructure company is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead technical vision, execution, and team culture. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building secure, scalable, and high-performance systems that enhance how applications interact with Solana. You’ll guide architecture, mentor a world-class Rust team, and collaborate with founders to shape long-term strategy. From protocol design to infrastructure reliability, you’ll drive innovation across every layer of the stack.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Architect and evolve distributed systems for scale, performance, and security; translate protocol specs into modular, performant Rust code; automate performance testing, security benchmarking, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Team Leadership & Culture: Grow and mentor a high-performing engineering team; set engineering best practices and operational standards; enable frequent, high-quality code shipping.
• Infrastructure & Operations: Oversee reliability and scalability across Kubernetes, cloud, and networking layers; establish incident response protocols and ensure platform resilience.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with founders on long-term technical direction; align engineering execution with product roadmap and mission; represent the company at industry events and technical forums.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven leadership in blockchain, distributed systems, or high-performance infrastructure
• Deep Rust (or C/C++/Go) expertise and systems-level programming skills
• Experience scaling L1/L2 architectures and cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong grasp of protocol design, security, and cryptographic systems
• Empathetic leadership style with mentoring experience
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Open-source contributions to core protocol engineering (e.g., Firedancer, Reth, Lighthouse, Geth)
• Direct involvement in the Solana ecosystem
• Experience in blockchain security research and public engagement
• Production experience scaling distributed systems and infrastructure

Compensation & Benefits

• $200K–$300K base salary
• Tokens and equity based on market benchmarks
• Remote-first with Europe-friendly time zones
• Opportunity to define technical direction at the edge of blockchain innovation
• Work with motivated builders solving complex distributed systems challenges
• Fast-paced growth in a frontier tech landscape

Skills: distributed systems, blockchain, leadership, rust, solana

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Business Consulting and Services